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ISO New England currently operates the electrical grid without an consideration of air quality or environmental justice issues. If you'd like to see this issue addressed, sign the online petition (http://www.gopetition.com/online/34932.html) requesting a meeting with ISO NE.

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My understanding is that what they are doing is currently against the Law. So where are the politicians, the police, the courts when we need them? I know New Haven's air quality already needs 10 lbs of cure. Are we going to sit back and let some company strangle us to death? The means has to justify the end; otherwise what good is it.

eddie(Guest)

New Haven: If you want some sort of action to be taken, it would be helpful if you could specify which law ISO New England is supposedly violating.

Also, to the OP: Are you sure operation of the grid is a function that should take into account these issues? ISO exists to ensure the availability and reliability of electricity from the grid, coordinating between generators and electric utilities.

I'm curious about what operational model would allow ISO New England -- rather than the utilities and generators -- to take into account environmental and social issues. Are there other independent system operators that do this? How?

eddie(Guest)

This Saturday the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team and Wooster Square Watch are sponsoring a community planning meeting.
Results from the 2010 New Haven quality of life survey are now available and will be a terrific indicator of the areas of focus for improving the quality of life in our neighborhood.

I hope many of you can make it to think strategically as a group about how we as citizens can make a difference in the neighborhood within our broader mission of safety through awareness and prevention.

Eddie: the reason I posted on SeeClickFix the notice about the neighborhood workshop is because these issues were quality of life issues within the boundary of the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team. The meeting posted above is a real-life version of SeeClickFix - gather neighbors together, brainstorm ideas, and bring action to issues in the neighborhood as reported by the community through the 2010 Quality of Life Survey. To say that this meeting being held on Saturday is irrelevant is misleading. Thank you for your note and understanding that it is well intentioned. It's more than that. This will be a venue for people to come together and solve the problems being posted on SeeClickFix and to build a neighborhood plan to prevent problems from occurring in the future.

eddie(Guest)

I apologize in advance for bogging down this thread with off-topic posts, but I think this issue merits debate.

SCF is an elegant tool that is useful precisely because it is able to take broad set of information and then target specific bits of it exclusively to the few people who are likely to find it useful. Using this system to broadcast non-specific messages to large groups runs exactly counter to SCF's nature.

I use SCF for business as well as personal reasons, and like many users I to go great lengths to try to limit the notifications I receive to those that are likely to require me to act on them. Simply filtering out SCF, as you suggest, is a luxury that I do not have.

As I said, I'm generally supportive of your organization's goals, but SCF -- in my opinion -- is not a good medium for advertising its upcoming meetings. If other organizations with equally noble aims were to similarly exploit SCF to promote events that are not directly responsive to thread topics, SCF would quickly be overwhelmed with useless information -- and its utility to users would wane.

I would suggest that you post this workshop as its own "clicket" on the map.

As of 2013 City departments have begun to review, acknowledge and respond to SeeClickFix issues. Since your issue is in the category titled "No Service Request" and was submitted prior to 2013, we are going to close and archive it. If this issue still requires City attention, please report as a new SeeClickFix issue. Thank you.